Here's lovely lovely Revere Beach with Anna and Claire. It's off the blue line, and you take the Wonderland stop (Has anybody seen the movie Next Stop Wonderland? That's the one.). Our walk was windy and sunny and good!

A few more good Kentucky memories...

My camera miraculously resurrected itself, this morning!
Here are two of my favorite pictures from the four weeks in KY.
(I wish the one with Alex was more clear.)

* nurture * dream * bloom * soar * stretch * * run * rest * open up * breathe * give * bless * inspire * turn on * reverie * honest to goodness * lazy * goodness gracious * harvest * be well * hug that tree * inhabit * create * mix it up * turn the corner * live now * folk * fulfill * carry * keep * hearten * nourish * provide * cultivate * rich * avocado * harbor * feed * scoot * vamoose * skedaddle * loll * luxuriate * dimple * twinkle * butter * grin * romp * tromp * frolic * dance * touch * hoot * tee-hee * chortle * belly * chuckle * attend * grasp * besotted * hooked * choose * daydream * what a looker * marvel * arm candy * dish * peach * sweet-talk * good *

Free time, glorious free time...

What do I do with it? I write letters. I run. I ice skate (The law school has a cute little seasonal rink!). I go to the library. I dine with friends. In the past few days I visited a Buddhist center, walked through the weirdly wonderful mapparium, saw the John Singer Sargent murals at the downtown Copley Library, learned two new guitar songs and sang the open mic at Club Passim. And, I must admit, I surfed the web... This morning I was looking at the pretty pretty fabrics from amy butler. (Someday, I'm going to be the woman who makes beautiful wall-hangings and paintings with stuff like this. Maybe tonight I'll do an art project!)

And what do you think of these wings?? Amazing.
I'd love to wear them. I'd love to fly in them!

Here's Joshua Radin singing You Got Growin Up to Do from his upcoming album. Annie introduced me to this guy earlier last year and I like what I've heard, especially the male / female duets. Enjoy.

Look who's speaking at our graduation!

Vanessa and I have both wanted Sigg water bottles for a long time. (The plastic ones we've used and loved forever are great except they supposedly leach cancer-causing chemicals into your water...) Siggs are pricey, though, and it's hard to buy another water bottle for yourself when the main point of them is t0 reduce waste and needless consumption. So, for Christmas we got each other one! As you can see in the thank you pics we sent to each other, they are perfection :o).

From my plane ride with Mom, this morning--
It was so much fun! She's totally confident and smooth. Verrry impressive :o).

It was chilly, so we had to pre-heat the engine and de-ice.

This is our family farm in Indiana, that Mima and Pipa bought a long time ago.
It was hard to find! Next time we're bringing a map with roads on it...

And here's my favorite neighborhood in Louisville, the Highlands.
That's the downtown skyline in the background, and if you look closely
(click the pic to enlarge) you can see part of Cherokee Park on the right.

Gimme a high five, the papers are finished!!!!!!

When you come to the edge of all the light you have,
and must take a step into the darkness of the unknown,
believe that one of two things will happen to you:
either there will be something solid for you to stand on, or,
you will be taught
how to fly.

Patrick Overton

Three final papers down, and one more to go. (It's got to be 3,000 words or more, and I've got 48 hours or so to get it finished... Yee-haw!) Has been really, really lovely to be in Kentucky, hanging out with family and friends for these past few weeks. But I'm looking forward to heading back north this coming Thursday. There's a potential road trip to Toronto in the works, and plans to finally explore Boston and surrounds! Will be nice to be there without the crazy demands of school for a few weeks, til class starts again in February. Here are a few pics (just the ones from my MacBook camera, til I get home and can plug in the real camera) from my KY time.

Thorin and Hannah playing with the camera

my study buddies, Emmy Lou and Zeus, at Joanna's

fabulous Cicada and her fiance Josh, who tromped around Bernheim with me and
had dinner with my family!

beautiful baby Michelle

Women Are Never Front-Runners

By GLORIA STEINEM
NY Times

Published: January 8, 2008

...So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one? The reasons are as pervasive as the air we breathe: because sexism is still confused with nature as racism once was; because anything that affects males is seen as more serious than anything that affects “only” the female half of the human race; because children are still raised mostly by women (to put it mildly) so men especially tend to feel they are regressing to childhood when dealing with a powerful woman; because racism stereotyped black men as more “masculine” for so long that some white men find their presence to be masculinity-affirming (as long as there aren’t too many of them); and because there is still no “right” way to be a woman in public power without being considered a you-know-what.

and

...This country can no longer afford to choose our leaders from a talent pool limited by sex, race, money, powerful fathers and paper degrees. It’s time to take equal pride in breaking all the barriers. We have to be able to say: “I’m supporting her because she’ll be a great president and because she’s a woman.

Read the whole thing here.